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Saturday, December 23, 1978 · Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum

Rangers 4 at Islanders 9

Final

Three Stars

By Game Score until the NHL names its three stars.

C 99OVR Bryan Trottier Islanders First Star 5G · 3A · 8 SOG R 99OVR Mike Bossy Islanders Second Star 2G · 3A · 8 SOG L 96OVR Clark Gillies Islanders Third Star 4A · 2 SOG

Scoring

1st Period

  1. 13:40 Bryan Trottier (20) Gerry Hart (4) NYR 0 – 1 NYI
  2. 15:09 Ron Greschner (12) Pierre Plante (10), Dave Farrish (8) NYR 1 – 1 NYI

2nd Period

  1. 1:11 Mike Bossy (24) PPG Bryan Trottier (27) NYR 1 – 2 NYI
  2. 3:41 Bryan Trottier (21) Clark Gillies (26), Mike Bossy (16) NYR 1 – 3 NYI
  3. 5:08 Garry Howatt (8) Bryan Trottier (28), Gerry Hart (5) NYR 1 – 4 NYI
  4. 8:59 Stefan Persson (6) Garry Howatt (5), Ed Westfall (6) NYR 1 – 5 NYI
  5. 11:21 Mike Bossy (25) Bryan Trottier (29), Clark Gillies (27) NYR 1 – 6 NYI
  6. 13:13 Ron Greschner (13) Pierre Plante (11), Nick Fotiu (4) NYR 2 – 6 NYI
  7. 18:39 Bryan Trottier (22) Clark Gillies (28), Mike Bossy (17) NYR 2 – 7 NYI
  8. 19:44 Bryan Trottier (23) PPG Clark Gillies (29), Stefan Persson (20) NYR 2 – 8 NYI

3rd Period

  1. 7:38 Bryan Trottier (24) PPG Mike Bossy (18), Denis Potvin (27) NYR 2 – 9 NYI
  2. 11:20 Mike McEwen (9) SHG Pierre Plante (12), Walt Tkaczuk (13) NYR 3 – 9 NYI
  3. 17:05 Anders Hedberg (12) Ulf Nilsson (20), Pat Hickey (19) NYR 4 – 9 NYI

New York Rangers

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Pierre Plante R 0 3 1 0 0 +1 0:00 2.10
Ron Greschner D 2 0 4 0 0 0 0:00 1.80
Anders Hedberg R 1 0 4 0 0 +1 0:00 1.20
Ulf Nilsson C 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Pat Hickey L 0 1 2 0 0 +1 0:00 0.93
Mike McEwen D 1 0 4 0 0 -1 0:00 0.75
Walt Tkaczuk C 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.70
Dave Farrish D 0 1 2 0 0 -2 0:00 0.32
Dave Maloney D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Carol Vadnais D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Steve Vickers L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0:00 0.00
Lucien DeBlois C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Phil Esposito C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Nick Fotiu L 0 1 1 0 0 0 0:00 -0.35
Dean Talafous C 0 0 0 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.45
Ron Duguay C 0 0 3 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.75
Mario Marois D 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -2.03
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Wayne Thomas L 23 15 8 .652 40:00 -4.50
John Davidson — 13 12 1 .923 20:00 0.45

New York Islanders

Player G A SOG HIT BLK +/- TOI GS
Bryan Trottier C 5 3 8 0 0 +6 0:00 7.13
Mike Bossy R 2 3 8 0 0 +3 0:00 4.43
Clark Gillies L 0 4 2 0 0 +3 0:00 3.10
Stefan Persson D 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.83
Gerry Hart D 0 2 2 0 0 +2 0:00 1.70
Garry Howatt L 1 1 2 0 0 +3 0:00 1.60
Ed Westfall R 0 1 0 0 0 +2 0:00 0.93
Denis Potvin D 0 1 3 0 0 -1 0:00 0.70
Dave Lewis D 0 0 0 0 0 +1 0:00 0.15
Bert Marshall D 0 0 1 0 0 0 0:00 0.08
Billy Harris R 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.08
Bob Bourne C 0 0 2 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.15
Wayne Merrick C 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
John Tonelli L 0 0 1 0 0 -2 0:00 -0.22
Mike Kaszycki C 0 0 0 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.30
Bobby Nystrom R 0 0 2 0 0 -3 0:00 -0.30
Pat Price D 0 0 1 0 0 -1 0:00 -0.45
Goalie DEC SA SV GA SV% TOI GS
Billy Smith W 31 27 4 .871 60:00 -0.30